[A-List] Fwd: Israel Navy reserves officers: Allow external Gaza flotilla probe

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

The multiple proofs that Isarel routinely falsifies tapes, records,
conversations on the highest levels with collution from any other
countries it is able to convince it that falsification is in their
best interest, is too widespread and well know to ba able to not use
in any probe but one done only by Israel itslf.    Suzanne


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Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:39 PM
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Haaretz
                                                  06.06.10

Israel Navy reserves officers: Allow external Gaza flotilla probe

Officers denounce operation as 'military and diplomatic failure', slam
government for placing blame on the activists.

By Anshel Pfeffer Tags: Israel news IDF Gaza flotilla

A group of top Israel Navy reserves officers on Sunday publicly called
on Israel to allow an external probe into its commando raid of a
Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla last week, which left nine people
dead and several more wounded.

In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Defense
Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, the Navy officers denounced the
commando raid as having "ended in tragedy both at the military and
diplomatic levels."

"We disagree with the widespread claims that this was the result of an
intelligence rift," said the officers. "In addition, we do not accept
claims that this was a 'public relations failure' and we think that
the plan was doomed to failure from the beginning."

"First and foremost, we protest the fact that responsibility for the
tragic results was immediately thrust onto the organizers of the
flotilla," wrote the officers. "This demonstrates contempt for the
responsibility that belongs principally to the hierarchy of commanders
and those who approved the mission. This shows contempt for the values
of professionalism, the purity of weapons and for human lives."

The Navy officers' letter came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
was convening his top ministers to deliberate a United Nations
proposal to create a joint international committee alongside Turkey
and the United States to investigate the circumstances of the deadly
raid.

The cabinet was also to discuss the creation of an internal committee
to look into the incident. Netanyahu earlier Sunday rejected the idea
of an international panel, and reiterated that Israel had the right to
conduct its own investigation.

Netanyahu discussed the proposal for a multinational panel with United
Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a telephone call on Saturday
but told cabinet ministers fon Sunday that Israel was exploring other
options, political sources said.

"I told [Ban] that the investigation of the facts must be carried out
responsibly and objectively," Netanyahu told ministers. "We need to
consider the issue carefully and level-headedly, while maintaining
Israel's national interests as well as those of the Israel Defense
Forces."